Exclusive Interview – With just two months to go before the November 5 U.S. presidential election, Russia’s disinformation campaign appears to be in full swing. Russia has warned all year that such an operation would target American voters. The United States issued an indictment Employees of the Russian state-run media network RT have been charged with secretly funding and directing American companies to produce content aimed at influencing American voters.
that A 32-page indictment The indictment alleges that employees used front companies to pay $10 million to a Tennessee-based corporation to produce online videos aimed at amplifying political divisions in the United States. According to the indictment, the company, Tenet, used influential conservative social media figures to spread extreme and often false narratives about election fraud, the coronavirus pandemic, immigration, and the war between Russia and Ukraine.
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